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The Nonpartisan League Leadership And The Disloyalty Issue, Jack C. Carmichael

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Physical Changes Of Lignite Upon Treatment With Phenol, Philip F. Richmond

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North Dakota lignite was made to swell with phenol and phenol- water solutions. Preliminary data were used to design a reactor (treater) of approximately 500 gram capacity. Twenty-nine runs were made using this treater with phenol concentrations from 0 to 100 percent phenol. The lignite was treated undried and of sizes from 0.065 to O.263 inches. Temperatures of treatment ranged from 69 to 106 degrees C. with run lengths from 3*2 to 10.4 hours.

The degree of swelling was evaluated by measuring the lignite before and after treatment in the following wayst height in the treater, volume, weight and particle …

An Introduction To And An Initial Examination Of The Visual Half Field Shut Down Theory Of Reflective Lateral Eye Movements, Barbara Arneson Yutrzenka

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A Study Of The Relationship Between The Human Will And The Learning Process: An Examination Of Stavrogin, A Character In Dostoevsky's The Possessed, Gurney D. Toews

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The research problem is to examine the epistemological nature of the relationship which exists between the human will and the learning process using the development of a fictional character, i.e,, Stavrogin in Dostoevsky’s The Possessed, as focus for the study.

The purpose of this study is to identify and analyze Dostoevsky’s theory of will as that theory describes the educational growth and development of the individual and defines the process by which the individual comes to know his own nature and that of the world. The study derives from the theory of will specific educational principles.

Dostoevsky’s theory of will …

A Study Of The Attitudes Of Parents And Teachers At Standing Rock Community Elementary School Toward Multicultural Education, Karen Gayton Swisher

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The Problem: The purpose Oi this study was to determine the attitudes a: parents and teachers at the Standing Rock Community Elementary Scr.pol cn the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota , toward both the meaning of multicultural education and the desirability oi implement mg multicultural education into the instructional program .

Procedure: A I.ikert-type scale was constructed and administered to fifty randomly selected parents and to all eighteen classroom teachers at Standing Rock Community -Jernentary School. The scale provided the data used in the study. The data obtained were treated for significant differences using analysis of variance, t-tost, …

A Study Of The Contributing Factors Relating To Why American Indian Students Drop Out Of Or Graduate From Educational Programs At The University Of North Dakota, Leigh D. Jeanotte

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Purpose. Because the number of American Indians attending higher education institutions are increasing every year, there is an apparent need to better understand some of the factors which have an impact on continuing or discontinuing their college educations. As a result, this study was undertaken for the purpose of examining the contributing factors relating to why American Indian students drop out of or graduate from educational programs at the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota.

Procedure. A questionnaire was constructed and administered to undergraduate American Indian students enrolled at the University of North Dakota between 1970 and 1979 …

Lateralized Emotional And Cognitive Processes In Personality, Steven Lee Dawson

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Research on hemispheric specialization has generated theories of lateralized cognition, personality traits, and emotional experience and expression. Of these the research on lateralized cognition has provided the most reliable and interpretable results. Using the lateralized cognitive attributes as a guideline, a personality model of hemispheric activation is hypothesized which suggests that each hemisphere provides a distinctive overall approach to information gathering, cognitive processing, emotional experience and behavioral expression. This model predicts that detai1-oriented perception, rumination, and analytic processing are the domain of the left hemisphere, while a more spatial perceptual approach and holistic cognitive processing are the domain of the …

Treatability Of Aqueous Gasifier Effluent Using Solvent Extraction, Michael D. Mann

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The treatability of aqueous gasifier effluent to reduce the content of soluble organics using solvent extraction as the principal treatment step was investigated. The aqueous gasifier effluent was collected from the spray washer of the Grand Forks Energy Technology Center's slagging fixed-bed gasifier during run RA176.

Raw gasifier effluent is treatable using solvent extraction with n-butyl acetate and isopropyl ether as solvents. A total capital investment of approximately $5,494,800 can be expected for a treatment facility using n-butyl acetate as the extracting solvent, capable of purifying wastewater from a slagging gasifier plant with a large enough capacity to produce 250 …

The Role Of Pioneering Species On The Reclamation Of North Dakota Surface Mined Lands, Louis R. Iverson

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Four reclaimed mined areas in western North Dakota ranging in age from one to four years since mining, along with a site from a native mixed grass prairie for comparison, were studied to quantify the early successional changes in floristic composition, soil chemistry and plant chemical composition. The mined sites had been contoured, topsoiled, fertilized, and seeded. However, analysis of the seed bank in topsoil showed that the most dominant colonizers immigrate after topsoiling. Of the 95 species encountered, Kochia scoparia was the most dominant in the first two years following mining. Kochia had relatively low densities 2 in the …

A Descriptive Study Of The Educational And Work Experience Of Four Generations Of Women From The Same Family, Enrolled At The Turtle Mountain Chippewa Reservation, Lorrtta Delong

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Extraversion, Introversion And Anxiety In Relation To Affiliation In College Students, Thomas Matthew Krapu

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Similarities between personality defects resulting from disruptive, inadequate affective development and problems of extreme extraversion and introversion suggested that developmental ego psychology and object relations theories might be useful in understanding interpersonal functioning in general and how people affiliate in particular. Research on affiliation indicated that extraverts are more affiliative and introverts less affillative, under a condition of high anxiety. A greater predisposition to become anxious (trait anxiety) was also associated with reduced affiliative tendencies under a high anxiety condition. Other research suggested that women and first born subjects were more affiliative than men and later born subjects. The present …

Hedda Gabler: A Design Interpretation, Katherine J. Jacobs

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This thesis is an exploration of my design approach to the University of North Dakota production of Hedda Gabler, presented on October 5-9, 1977. The first chapter contains a brief theatrical history of the era in which the play was written, a short biography of the playwright, an analysis of the play and a brief study of late Victorian costume.

The second chapter explores how the concepts of the director and scenic designer, coupled with the necessity of recreating a historical era, influenced my final designs.

The third chapter discusses the execution of the designs. It explores the problems I …

A Performer's Guide To Selected Keyboard Works Of Antonio Carlos De Seixas, Henry L. Rose

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Portugal's foremost keyboardist of the Baroque period was Carlos de Seixas. His music, however, has been overshadowed by that of his eminent contemporary Domenico Scarlatti.

This thesis is an attempt to bring Seixas's music out of obscurity and into the concert hall. It includes biographical material, structural and theoretical analyses that are based on all of his known keyboard works, and guidelines for the performance of the works.

A Kinetic Model For Ion Exchange Of Sodium From Lignite Using Sulfuric Acid, David Peterson

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The removal of sodium from lignite by ion exchange techniques was studied using hydrogen ions from sulfuric acid. The exchange of calcium, magnesium, potassium, and aluminum from lignite was also observed. A measured amount of lignite and sulfuric acid solution was contacted in a beaker and stirred for a given period of time. The lignite and solution were then separated and analyzed to determine the extent of ion exchange. The lignite used contained 9.5 percent sodium oxide in the ash.

Five parameters were studied to determine their effect upon the exchange rate. These were initial H2S°4 concentrati°n / lignite particle …

A Complete Achilles Tendon Rupture-- An Anatomical Review And Case Study Of The Treatment, Surgery, And Rehabilitation Of One Complete Rupture, Myron J. Cullen

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The purpose of this thesis was to study the anatomi cal structure, mechanical function, and mechanism of injury of the Achilles tendon. The surgical procedure, description and results of the rehabilitation program, developed by this researcher specifically for this injury were presented.

A case study of one twenty-three-year-old male subject was the basis of this study. A day-by-day follow-up of the subject's rehabilitation program from surgery to dismissal from rehabilitation were presented.

The results of this rehabilitation program were favorable. This subject was able to return to daily activities much sooner than expected and was able to participate in a …

Introducing North Dakota Writers To North Dakota Readers, Kathie Anderson

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My study of the literature of North Dakota began ten years ago, when the topic for the annual writers conference at the University of North Dakota was the literature of the Northern Plains. At that conference I listened to Lois Phillips Hudson, Thomas McGrath, Richard Lyons, and other regional writers. Since that conference, I have been reading the literature of North Dakota and learning about the writers, and I have introduced the literature of North Dakota to my students in Grand Forks and Bismarck. My students, like the rest of us, have had the initial reaction, "Literature--Here?"

This study consists …

Oral, Written, And Read Syntax Of Forty-Six Learning Disabled Children, Carole Thompson Aitchison

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Problem: This study was designed to meet the need for further investigation of the relationships among oral language, written language, and reading. The following questions were investigated: What syntactical structures characterize the oral and written language of forty-six learning disabled children? What is the relationship between the structures used in the oral and written language of the forty-six subjects? What is the relationship between structures used in oral and written language and errors in oral language? Is the analysis system described by Dever (1978) useful for the purpose of analyzing the syntax of oral language, written language, and reading errors …

The Role Of Women In Education: Antecedents, Current Status, And Change Strategies, Lois J. Fisher

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Statement of the problem. This historical-philosophical study examines the role of women in education. Currently women hold few positions of leadership or prestige in this profession. While women have long had an important role in education, that role has seldom been a high status position.

Purpose of the study. Understanding the role of women in education requires understanding the influences that have helped to shape that role. Those influences and antecedents are to be found in the subject-matter fields of history, psychology, sociology, philosophy, and education. The explanation and description of this background material provides a philosophical and theoretical base …

Perceptions Of Selected Groups Toward The Current And Ideal Role Of Special Education Directors As Administrative Leaders In North Dakota Schools Which Have High Concentrations Of American Indian Students, Ramona Decoteau

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The Problem. The purpose of the study was to determine how selected groups view the role of the special education director/coordinator in North Dakota schools which have concentrations of American Indian students. This study also compared the perceptions of the selected groups toward the current and ideal role of the special education director/coordinator.

Procedure. A survey instrument was developed and administered to seventy-eight administrators, special education directors/coordinators, and special education teachers to assess perceptions toward the current and ideal role of the special education director/coordinator in North Dakota schools serving significant numbers of American Indian students. The data obtained from …

The United States House Of Representatives: An Organizational Analysis, Edith Lowry

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School Food Service Staffing Patterns In Small Public-School Districts In North Dakota, Donna Dickson

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Auditing In An Electronic Data Processing Environment, Terry L. Moore

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Blacks And Their Struggle To Achieve Upward Mobility In The Public Sector, Bernard H. Simelton

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Sino-American Relations Past, Present And Future, Bert Henry Herigstad

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Human Asset Accounting, Richard B. Sorenson

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Rabbit Heart And Vascular Responses To Carotid Occlusion And Peep With Denervation And Selective Adrenergic Blockade., Mark Robert Magnusson

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Mechanical ventilation with inspiratory positive pressure and positive, end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) has been used to improve arterial oxygenation and to re-expand and stabilize collapsed areas of the lung in patients with non-cardiogenic pulmonary edema and adult respiratory distress syndrome. However lung hyperinflation by PEEP results in decreased cardiac output and mean arterial pressure. The interaction of the mechanical and the neuroreflex effects which alter cardiovascular function during PEEP have not been examined in a study designed to evaluate the components (arterial baroreflex, cardiopulmonary mechanoreflex, and mechanical) and their integrated effects.This study examined the cardiovascular responses to 2.5 cm H(,2)O PEEP …

The Influence Of Hormones, Alpha- And Beta-Adrenergic Effectors On Carbohydrate Metabolism In Isolated Rabbit Hepatocytes., Mark Anthony Yorek

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Hormonal regulation of gluconeogenesis and glycogenolysis was studied in hepatocytes isolated from 48 hr fasted rabbits. We found that these hepatocytes convert a variety of substrates into glucose at the following rates ((mu)mol glucose formed/30 min/10('8) cells): alanine, 2.24 (+OR-) 0.50;

Physical Dependence On Alcohol And Its Relationship With Divalent Cation And Carbon-Dioxide Concentrations, Blood Ph, And Intracellular Brain Ph In Laboratory Rats And Mice., Mark Allan Mitchell

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The role of extra- and intracellular acid-base status and divalent cations in the onset and severity of withdrawal from chronic ethanol intoxication was investigated in mice and rats. Body temperatures in both species were significantly decreased throughout withdrawal. While temperature corrected bicarbonate and extracellular pH, and brain Zn('++) concentrations were significantly increased in alcohol-exposed mice, all other parameters monitored in mice and rats indicate the lack of alkalosis or changes in Mg('++) or Ca('++) concentrations during withdrawal.The severity of withdrawal following chronic intoxication was not affected by either 5% or 15% CO(,2) therapy during the withdrawal period. Fifteen percent CO(,2) …

Studies Of The Azasulfonium Functionality: The Cyclization Of Methionine And Other 3-(Amino)Thioethers To Form Isothiazolidinum Salts., Darrell William Swank

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The formation and stability of the azasulfonium functionality within the isothiazolidinium structure was investigated. A variety of S- and N-substituted aminothioethers, isothiazolidinium salts and sulfoxides were synthesized, isolated and characterized. Studies of the reaction of a variety of methionine derivatives and analogues with iodine indicated that cyclization occurred when a trimethylene bridge separated the amine and thioether functional groups. The amine could be primary or secondary but could not be in amide linkage and the sulfur could not exist as a sulfoxide or sulfonium salt, but only as a thioether. Significant yields of isothiazolidinium salts were obtained when N-halo compounds …

Storm Over The Summit: A Political History Of Summit County To 1882, Rodney L. Peck

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The purpose of this study was to gain a more complete understanding of Mormon politics in territorial Utah by studying the growth and development of the political process in Summit County to 1882.

The study suggests that the county was governed by a relatively small but growing group of politically minded men, many of whom also ecclesiastical trust or who were among the pioneers of the area. The study also suggests that the Mormon teaching of unity in all things and fair representation among county offices from the county's major population centers were the governing principles of Mormon political action …